AR15 Magazines - Pinned, Metal Mags?

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I'm new to the AR world. I'm browsing around looking at all of the magazines available. I've seen pinned plastic mags. I've seen crimped and lanced metal mags. Out of curiosity, does anyone sell pinned metal mags?

Also, is there much a difference between aluminum and stainless steel mags?
 
not much difference (i prefer metal/alum over pmag) and yes you can get usgi mags pinned at 5...i'm going to throw a shout out to NAS guns and Red Deer shooting centre for supplying me mine.

However, if somebody would bring in Lancer smoked mags by the truck load, they'd have a new customer! hint hint...
 
Some aluminium mag do not drop free. My friend just got a ar that cane with a hexmag that also does not drop free
 
If you head down to the states for 3gun or IPSC (whatever) with a pinned mag you can remove the pin down there for ultimate freedom, and pin them back before you come over the border.
 
I bought some usgi that would not seat. The pins were just too high. Never an issue with magpul or hera. I could have moved the rivets but I just traded them.

Alberta tactical 10 rounders are nice but are polymer and not the steel you are after . When you disassemble it's just a plastic strip limiting it. If the drill the rivets end of days come you can have 20's with a buyer knife fix
 
I personally prefer a polymer magazine to a metal one simply because I'm a reloader and metal magazines scratch the brass. As for function I've never really had any functional problems with either and I have more than 20 of each. I prefer riveted for the same reason that was mentioned earlier so if the day comes it will be easy to remove the neutering device.
I don't travel to the US but if I did and I was taking my rifles I wouldn't care about being able to remove rivets since pmags are $12 each south of the border so I'd just buy a few new ones and give them away to the locals before heading back home. It's just not really worth the effort to mess with them as drilling the rivet usually gets it hot which melts the polymer making them hard to install a new rivet.
STANAG magazines are a disposable item in the big picture so buy a bunch of them when you find a good price and mark the ones that are not reliable in your rifle and put them aside to be used for parts or sold. If you have a quality firearm you won't find many magazines that don't work well. Run a Chinese rifle and you'll have more problems that you'll wrongly blame on the magazines.
 
Have used both steel and PMags, only issue I've ever had with both were strictly limited to the Gen 2 PMags failing to feed properly (5.56 and 7.62 NATO).

No issues at all with Gen 3s (5.56 and 7.62 NATO). You may want to look at LAR mags (legal 10 rounds vs 5):

https://www.cpdmags.com/Products.html

Pretty good stock of these north of the border.
 
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